Top 5 Reasons I HEART Fantasy Football
September 23rd, 2005
I recently started a fantasy football league, after making fun of fantasy sports for the past 2 years. Here are the reasons I was wrong (so wrong!) about it:
5. Creating my avatar (a tiny cartoon me) was ridiculously entertaining. No, it doesn’t look anything like me, and I dressed it up like a cheerleader (which I never was, despite my dreams), but it was kinda like playing Barbie. Or, for guys, probably more like playing the PS2 Tiger Woods’ Golf video game….
4. We created an all girls league, which makes it completely un-intimidating. No guys to yell at me, “What? You don’t remember who won the 1982 Superbowl? How can you call yourself a football fan?” Plus, I’m learning a lot about players that aren’t on my “real” team (the Packers, of course), which makes me feel smarter.
3. Because we’re a small league (only 6 teams - we couldn’t find more girls that love football enough to do this), we all have totally awesome teams. So, for the most part, we don’t have to deal with players that stink (except for the friend that drafted players almost solely on looks), and we all get a lot of points.
2. When the Packers are sucking (all season, thus far), I can try and focus on the fact that at least my fantasy team has a good defense. This kept me from jumping off a bridge last week when the freakin’ BROWNS kicked the Packers’ *sses. Ugh.
1. POSTING! It’s like posting on blogs, but with a smaller group of people; or like IMing, but less annoying! We can talk about football, who the hottest football player is, how geeky we are for doing this, about boy cooties….
Now I have to go pick my starting line-up for this weekend’s games.
That must be why I’m so down on fantasy sports lately… not enough girls!
So let’s hear it: what’s your team name?
Right now my team name is “biggest loser this side of the world” - I’m bitter because I’m in second to last place. I’ll be changing it soon though, and will post it when I do.
No worries… management is going to be looking HARD at our players vs. available free agents, and see who can be replaced. I’m sure some players will be upset, but they’ll just have to get over it.
I play to win.
Oh, and on another note…
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